Beer-tapping apparatus



(N10 Model.)

E. HAENIG. BEER 'I'AP]?Il\T(:r APPARATUS.

No. 576,189. Patented Peb. 2, 1897.

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BEER-TAPPING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,189, dated February 2, 189'?.

Application iiled April 11, 1896. Serial No. 587,141. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL HAENIG, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Antonio, in the county of Bexar and State of Texas, have invented anew and useful Beer-Tapping Apparatus, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in beer-tapping apparatuses in which the airsupply pipe is inclosed in the beer-tapping pipe; and the objects of myimprovements are,

first, to do away with the nipple on the mandrel for connecting the air-pipe and which by permanent handling too often leaks and breaks off; second, to enable the tapping of the keg to take place outside of the ice-box, and, third, to clean the pipe-coil easily in the ice-box with the air-pump. I attain these objects by the device illustrated in the accom panying drawing, which is a vertical view, partly in section, of the entige apparatus.

A is the usual bung, of brass or other suitable material, without a nipple or air-pipe connection, by which bung the keg is to be tapped after the lower end of the bung is closed by a cork.

B is a tapping pipe, of brass or other suitablematerial, inserted into the mandrel A, through which the beer is drawn. The lower part of the tapping-pipe B, which goes into the keg, has openings O for admitting the beer, and the upper end is fixed at d into a fitting D, of brass or other suitable material. This fitting D has on the one side an outlet E, on which a faucet F, of brass or other suitable material, is screwed with one end, and which is closed while the tapping-pipe B is inserted into the mandrel, and on the other end ofthe faucet F is screwed a union G for connecting the tapping apparatus with the beer-pipe coil in the ice-box. vOn the other side of the fitting D is a compartment H for theinlet of the air, separated from the outlet E by a partition I. An air-pipe K, of brass or other suitable material, which is inside of the tapping-pipe B, is with its upper end fixed by thread and nut in the partition I and with its lower end fixed by an elbow L to the tapping-pipe B, having the opening M belowthe mandrel A.

Into the compartment H of the iittingD is screwed a nipple N with a check-valve O, of india-rubber or other suitable material, which allows the air only to be forced into the cornpartment H and pipe K, but not back. On the other end of the nipple N is a union P for connecting the air-pipe Q, with the air-pump.

For cleaning the beer-pipe coil in the iceboX the two unions G and P are connected by a suitable nipple and the air forced through the coil by the air-pump.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire t'o secure by Letters Patent, is

In a beer-tapping apparatus, the fitting D composed of an inlet d and an outlet E, and a compartment H with a partition I, the airpipe K with its upper end fixed into the partition I, and with its lower end by an elbow L inside the tapping-pipe B, the outlet-opening being below the bung A, substantially as described.

EMIL l-IAENIG. Vitnesses:

ANTON E. HUTZLER, FRED. P. YTURRI. 

